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Although UTRGV addressed the 10 accreditation standards it did not meet in 2016, the university will remain on probation for one more year for failure to comply with a federal requirement about program responsibilities, an accreditation official says. In an interview earlier today, Pamela Cravey, SACSCOC’s coordinator of Communications and

Marine biology sophomore Samuel Cruz said he is uneasy about UTRGV’s probationary status. Cruz said he believes the university will lift the probation. “Being a university, you should take pride in having the best opportunities for your students and being on probation just has a bad aura to it,” he

Although the powerful earthquake that struck Tuesday may have lasted about a minute in real time, for Isela Rodríguez, who was visiting a friend in Mexico City’s Colonia Escandón, it felt like an eternity. The earthquake happened on the 32nd anniversary of the 1985 magnitude 8.0 quake that killed thousands

Chants of “Si se puede” broke out on the steps of Edinburg City Hall Tuesday after the city council passed an Anti-Border Wall Resolution in front of a packed house. Thirty anti-border wall activists were on hand to urge Mayor Richard Garcia and the City of Edinburg to take a

UPDATED AT 1:25 P.M. AUG. 26: UTRGV has granted access to all its campuses and locations as Hurricane Harvey is no longer a threat to the area, according to an email sent out earlier today from University Marketing and Communications. Housing Move-In remains scheduled from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday

After finding an inert grenade in a dorm at Unity Hall in Edinburg earlier this evening, the McAllen Police Bomb Response Unit gave an “all-clear” for students, faculty and staff to return to the dormitory. “As part of our protocol, when it was found, we have to do a proper

An electrical issue related to the HVAC system in Texas Southmost College’s Tandy Hall this morning set off the safety system, which triggered the evacuation of the building. Firefighters were on the scene and students, faculty and staff were advised to stay clear. The issue was not life-threatening. All of

UTRGV Faculty Senate President Bobbette Morgan told The Rider today that the senate’s executive committee plans to meet with President Guy Bailey no later than Monday to discuss the school’s probationary status. “Basically, we want to know what happened,” Morgan said. “He did talk to me about it. ... When

[metaslider id=7422] More than 40 protesters marched along the border fence and downtown Brownsville this afternoon during the “Rally Against Trump” to express their displeasure with President-elect Donald Trump’s victory. “What we hope to accomplish is to show that we are extremely, extremely angry about the results of this election,”